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J. D. Domer (1841-1902), American ministers, was born in Venago County, Pennsylvania, in 1834. He entered the ministry in 1861 in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Association. In 1891, when the division within the Evangelical Association led to the formation of the United Evangelical Church, Domer joined the Ohio Conference of that same splinter group. He was an itinerant minister for 38 years until his death in 1902.

Gladys Doyle (1899-1991) was a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary to India for forty years. She received a B.A. from the University of North Colorado in 1924 and an M.A. from Drew Theological Seminary in 1925. Later that year she sailed for India to begin her work as an education missionary. During her first term she supervised Methodist schools in northern India. Doyle also taught school in the Himalaya mountains. From 1950 to 1967 she supervised village schools in three districts. In addition to these duties, beginning in 1958, Doyle was in charge of evangelistic work among women in the four districts of the Moradabad Conference. Active in the campaigns of the Laubach Literacy Movement, Doyle wrote two readers in Hindi with Dora Walters. After her retirement in 1967 Doyle returned to Boulder, Colorado, where she was active in the First United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women.

Charles Edwin Draper (1879-1964), Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary, was born on November 9. 1879 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He graduated from Purdue University in 1906 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He married Mary Ethel Parks Draper on November 23, 1911 and they had four children named: C.R., Margaret, Betty, and John E. Draper, and they lived and worked throughout China, Singapore, Malaysia as missionaries and teachers in the early 20th Century. Draper attended the Hinghwa Conference in 1918 and worked in construction in Nanchang, China in 1922, before he became a Professor of Science at the Nanchang Academy in 1922. Later, he served as the Acting Registrar and was head of the Science Department at Nanchang Academy in 1923.

Charles E. Draper died on November 4, 1964.